Hospital Staff Allocation and Cost Data from 207 Hubei Hospitals, 2019

207 general hospitals in Hubei Province provided data on medical staff allocation, Case-Mix Index, and inpatient costs in 2019. Change Xiong published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The analysis found a negative correlation between staff-to-bed ratios and average cost per inpatient visit.

Use Cases

• Modeling the moderating effect of Case-Mix Index on cost based on staff allocation ratios.
• Analyzing correlations between beds per doctor/nurse and inpatient visit costs.
• Investigating hospital-level factors influencing medical expenditures.
• Benchmarking hospital resource allocation against cost outcomes.

Strengths

• Data from 207 hospitals provides a substantial sample size.
• Specific correlation coefficients (e.g., r = -0.225) are reported, indicating analyzed relationships.
• The dataset is licensed CC-BY-4.0, allowing for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single province (Hubei) and year (2019), limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Change Xiong

Collection Method

Data were collected from 207 general hospitals in Hubei Province in 2019 using the cluster sampling method.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 05:22:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Hubei Province, China